• He got the sugar from the llama. – J., on suspected source of C.’s hyperactivity.

“Hey, little kid! Want some CANDY?”

• You two are banished to the Snoring Room. – Wife., on Terry and C.’s new sleeping arrangement after the first night of the family sleeping together in one hotel room.

• The solution to pollution is dilution. – Cody, river rafting guide, on the acceptability of peeing in the river.

• I’m from America. – C., age 8, to a river rafting companion, while still in America.

• I’m just going to pretend those are all crabs. Crabs. Crabs. Crabs. And not spiders. – Wife, ashore, encountering animal life while adding something to the river that needed to be diluted.

• Fun fact: Scorpions glow white under a black light. – Park ranger

• Rafting companion, on the smell of her young husband during her pregnancy:
He smelled like an old man.Wife: Terry smelled like an unwashed homeless person. I made him take showers every day after that.

Melanie:Other animals, such as ferrets and walking owls, use the prairie dog burrows when the prairie dog’s move out.Terry: So it’s like prairie dog Air BnBs?Melanie: Uh. . . Sure. . .

Plenty of extra rooms to rent. Plus, it’s better than having a prairie dog be your Uber driver.

• I’m a speed demon. – C., while inner-tubing on a lake in MN and right before he was thrown off the inner-tube because the boat was going too fast.

• Alexander, age 6, upon seeing Cinderella during a movie preview: That’s Cinderella. We should sue her.Terry: Why?Alexander: She came to a party, and she was lame. She was supposed to do face painting but didn’t.Terry: Do you have a good lawyer?Alexander: You’ll have to ask my dad.

• There are so many white people, it is kind of unsettling. – Terry, a white person from an ethnically diverse city, to Wife., on the demographics of the states visited (UT, WY, SD, MN, CO).

• It’s beautiful! – J., looking out the window rather than at an electronic device, making the trip to that point worth it.